Police sitting on arrest warrants against Owaisis

HYDERABAD: A case (crime number 130/2005) with severe charges including sections 147, 153-A, 353, 290, 295-A, 186, 341, 504 and 506 of the IPC and section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act was booked against Akbaruddin and Asaduddin Owaisi along with other MIM leaders at Patancheru police station in April 2005 for obstructing revenue officials from carrying out demolition of a place of worship to facilitate road extension at Muttangi village. Akbaruddin and others were accused of hurling abuses at then Medak district collector Anil Kumar Singhal.

In this case, Patancheru police have filed a chargesheet and the trial is on. But as both the Owaisi brothers did not appear before the concerned

court, non-bailable warrants were issued against them two years ago, but till date, the cops did not even execute the warrants. "We tried on several occasions to execute the warrants but the legislators were never available at their house," was the lame reasoning given by a Patancheru police official.

published in a Danish newspaper. Akbar was charged with inciting the mob to resort to violence through provocative utterances. However, the MIM leaders including Akbar secured anticipatory bail and never spent a single day in jail. Referring to the case, Hussaini Alam inspector J Venkat Reddy said the chargesheet was filed in 2007 and trial began only recently.

A case was again booked against Akbar under section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at Punjagutta police station in 2007 for threatening Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen to never return to Hyderabad again. Giving the status of this case, Punjagutta inspector Tirupati Rao said the chargesheet has been filed and the case is pending trial. Recently, based on SC directions, in October 2012 Chandrayangutta police booked a murder case against Akbaruddin and others in relation to the murder of Ibrahim Bin Yousuf Yafai, who was shot dead at Barkas in April 2011. The case is under investigation.

So, given this record, people are apprehensive about any proactive police action even in the Adilabad and Nizamabad cases.